NO. 3 SETH EASTMAN BUSHXELL 7 



Later that same day. after the Indians had met the Army officers in 

 council. General ]\Iaconih issued the following General Orders : 



Head Quarters of the Army of tfie United States 



1-orf King, Florida. May i8, 1839. 

 The ^lajor General, commanding in chief, has the satisfaction of announcing 

 to the army in Florida, to the authorities of the Territory, and to the citizens 

 generally, that he has this day terminated the war with the Seminole Indians 

 by an agreement entered into with Chitto-Tustenuggee, principal chief of the 

 Seminoles and successor to Arpeika, commonly called Sam Jones, brought to 

 this post by Lieutenant Colonel Harney, 2d Dragoons, from the southern parts 



of the peninsula 



Alexander Macomb 



Major General Coiniuanding.^ 



The report of peace proved prematiu'e, and through treachery on 

 the part of the Indians quiet was not restored for many months. But 

 the document served to identify Sam Jones as the great chief of the 

 .Seminoles, Ghitto Tustenuggee, whose name frequently occurs in re- 

 ports and narratives connected with the war. 



Fortunately, Captain Eastman visited the southern part of Florida 

 and, as would be supposed, made sketches with pencil and water color. 

 One of the latter is a \iew of " Sam Jones' Village,'' which reveals a 

 group of shelters, for the most part roofs of palmetto thatch sup- 

 ported by upright posts set in the grotind. These primitive structures 

 are surrounded b}' semitropical vegetation, with open water in the dis- 

 tance. A large wooden mortar and pestle are shown in the extreme 

 lower right corner of the sketch, with a very large snake on the left. 

 The exact location is not known, but it was undoubtedly far south on 

 the peninstila. This extremely interesting pictttre is reprodticed in 

 Plate 4. 



AT FORT SNELLING 



\\\\\\ the exception of a short period during the year 1846 when he 

 was " on recruiting service." Captain Eastman was stationed at Fort 

 SnelHng with his regiment from 1841 to the autumn of 1848 when he 

 went to Texas. During the years he served at the post he made in- 

 numerable sketches of the Indians who frequented the fort, then in 

 the heart of the region dominated by the Mdewakanton, a tribe of the 

 Dakota, the largest division of the Siotian linguistic family. The native 

 villages stood on the banks of the Mississippi and ^Minnesota rivers, 

 easily reached from the fort. 



Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro had served as Indian Agent at Fort 

 Snelling for many years and resigned at the close of 1839. His last 



^ Giddins, Joshua R., The Florida exiles. Xew York. 1863. 



